Find Secondary Sources - Articles - BLST-231/HIST-247 African American History: Slave Trade to Reconstruction - Course Guide

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These core History databases are good places to find peer-reviewed articles.

America, History & Life (1964 to present)
Core database for the world's scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text (1955 to present)
Core database for scholarly literature about world history since 1450 (excluding the United States and Canada).

JSTOR
Full text back files of scholarly journals primarily in the humanities, socials sciences, & sciences as well as ebooks, primary sources, and image collections across multiple disciplines. The Amherst College Library provides Alumni Access to JSTOR.
Project Muse
Online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit publishers. Alumni access
Academic Search Premier (date coverage varies)
Full-text articles from over 3,600 journals in the social sciences, arts and humanities, and sciences.

Peer-reviewed articles are:

written by experts in the field
assessed for validity and scholarly rigor by other experts in the field (peer review)
published in scholarly journals